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B-oIlHaa. r '"hlnitton Gladden.
I U I. 'i Houghton, Mifflin ft Co.,
Boston. Mm., and Th J. K. Gill Co..
Portiud.
When a. man (u reached his TSd yar
and has led a well-ordered life of distinc
tion as preacher, author and publicist, aa
has Dr. Washington Gladden, hla biog
raphy ha more than ordinary Importance
and Interests the country at larg. Janu
ary. 1910. will see the 50th year of Dr.
Oladden's Christian ministry.
What a host of events hla book, which
extends to 445 pares, recalls. It Is a most
Interesting, friendly record of men and
events. In which anecdotes and criticism
play prominent parts, and where the cour
a?e of speaking one's mind has full play.
It Is a pleasant revelation to know Dr.
Gladden s theology he has been called,
before now. an infidel and In this connec
tion ho. says:
I am fain to believe that the time is
drawing nr whrn the Christian Church
will be able to discern and declare the
almple truth that rellston la nothing but
frlendahip: friendship with ?d and with
men. Friendship first with the great com
panion of whom Jeana told ua, who Is always
nearer to ua than we are to ourselves, and
whnae Inspiration and help Is the greatest
fact of human experience. ... To be
frienda with everybody; to All every human
relation with the spirit of friendship. Is
there anything more than this that the
widest and best of men can hope to do?
. . . If It was ever worth while to live.
It is worth while to live today. No better
day than this has ever dawned upon this
continent.
Brave and noble words these they give
Inspiration. Dr. Washington Gladden was
born February 11. 136, In Pottsgrove, Pa.,
and one of his ancestors fought In the
Army of Oie Revolution. The boy lived
a simple country life at a time when
books were read by the light of pine
knots, and as for religion he records with
sorrow that sectarian Jealousies were
fierce and that the ministers of the dif
ferent churches at and near bis home
were hardly on speaking terms with each
other.
Young Gladden dreamed of being a law
yer, but Instead be became an apprentice
printer with the editor and publisher of
the Owego Gazette, and from this he
drifted into politics and mingled with the
Abolitionists. Joining the Congregational
Church, he determined to study for the
ministry and says that his happiest days
were when he was a student. Williams
College furnished him his education, and
he speaks of these college mates: Presi
dent Garfield. Henry M. Alden. of Har
per's Weekly; Horace K, Scudder. of the
Atlantic and others. Becoming a college
correspondent for the Springfield. Mass.,
Republican newspaper. Gladden formed a
friendship with Its distinguished editor,
Samuel Bowles, which lasted until the
latter's death. Licensed to preach in the
Congregational Church, the young minis
ter found his lot cast in Brooklyn. N. T..
where he came under the spell and won
the friendship of Henry Ward Beecher.
The Civil War period Is graphically de
scribed, and the book passes on to pas
torates at Morrisania on the Harlem
River, and North Adams, Mass.
In the year 1863 Dr. Gladden began
authorship, and entered Into journalistic
life as religious editor of the Independent
at a time when that magazine helped to
expose and smash the Tweed ring. But
Dr. Gladden had firm notions of news
paper ethics, and mainly because he and
his chiefs on the Independent could not
agree on what was news and an adver
tisement, be again entered on his minis
terial duties, filling pastorates at Spring
field. Mass., and Columbus, O.
What Dr. Gladden has to say about the
relations of capital and labor, swollen
fortunes, and Mr. Roosevelt, reads well.
He admirers Mr. Roosevelt but "not his
present pastimes In Africa," and thinks
that Mr. Roosevelt is yet going to, do
great work in the world, as peacemaker.
The Rockefeller episode, where the Stand
ard Oil chief offered money to the Con
gregational Church, is referred to, and
Ir. Gladden takes delight in telling of
his opposition to the acceptance of what
he calls "tainted, monpy." .
The last two chapters, which tell of a
long life, well spent, in service and use
fulness, breathe a peaceful serenity that
Is significant of the man as a thinker and
teacher.
Home lettera of General Sherman, edited
hv M. A. DeWolfe Howe. Charlea
Scrlbnei-a Sons New York City and The
.t. K. Gill Co.. Portland.
Historians alive to the history-making
of our country prise the "Memoirs" of
General William Tecumseh Sherman, is
sued in 1875. the revised version of that
book, which appeared about ten years
later, and the correspondence between
the General and his equally celebrated
brother, Hon. John Sherman, published in
1W4. These were accepted as possessing
as much historical value as those older
epistles which In their day shed lasting
renown on the long wars and triumphs of
statesmanship of the Roman Republic
Now we have a more Intimate picture
of General Sherman, a picture shown by
the presentation of letters written by
the General to his wife, Mrs. Ellen Boyle
Ewlng Sherman. These letters begin at
West Point. N. T., August SO. 1837. where
Sherman was a cadet, and continue
through California during the gold rush
of ls43, and continue throughout the Civil
War. The General writes frankly con
cerning the causes which led to the Fed
eral retreat at the first battle of Bull
Run, and he speaks with merciless vigor
as to the mutinies of troops, desertion
of Federal volunteers under fire, the
havoc caused by the Interference of poli
ticians In army affairs, etc. In short, we
j?et remarkable limelight effects on many
of the great war captains, and we see
them hauled from their high places and
shown In all their humanity, weaknesses.
bravery. Such a valuable book as this is
not only an important contribution to
Civil War history, but is a sensible leg
acy to leave to our children.
Madame. Mother of the Regent, by Arede
Barln. Illustrated. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
New York City.
This author in private life was Madame
Charles Vincens. who died November 14.
1908, but not before she had written .all'
the chapters, except the last, of this
book. which is translated from the
French by Jeanne Mairet.
"Madame, Mother of the Regent." was
Elizabeth Charlotte, Countess Palatine
of the Rhine, Duchess of Bavaria and
Duchess of Orleans, born May 27, 1652.
Her aristocratic childhood was passed in
the Palatinate, the garden of Germany,
but a land so changed and ruined from
a property point of view by the Thirty
Years' War that cannabalism was re
sorted to for food. This latter fact Is
attested by the German historian, Ludwlg
Hausser.
Madame, after she became Her Grace
of Orleans, blossomed as one of the Inti
mates of Louis XIV of France and also
earned renown as a rival in power of
the celebrated Madame de Maintenon.
The period treated of is from 152 to 1722
and is an interesting peep behind the
scenes In which French royalty and near
royalty are the principal moving figures.
The book, which extends to 346 pages.
Is one of the big, historical documents
of the year.
bv Clark E. Carr.
!. A. C. McClurg & Co.,
Stephen A. INmglaa.
1. Illustrated.
Chicago, HI- ,
Douglas, the great" Vermonter. but
greater still as one of the historic fig
ures of the Lincoln-Douglas debates,
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been dwarfed bjr the growing immen
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ablest son of the .nglo-Saxon race,
so dwarfed that young readers nowa
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majority party In the North regards
the Question.
Dr. Carr presents the every-day
Douglas poor boy, lawyer. Judge. Con
gressman. United States Senator, ora
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illuminating one.
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was -able to speak more than 60 lan
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and delves Into their folk-lore and
myth-tales. He was one of the few
high authorities on such matters, and
traveled in the region mentioned to get
data for his book. The latter is one of
the great inteleotual treats of the sea
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i - Forbes Co., Chicago. III.
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DEATH OF AN ARABIAN HORSE OF NOBLE LINEAGE
" Homer Davenport Mourns the Loss of a Superb Animal Presented to Him by Nazim Pasha.
HOMER DAVENPORT IN NEW TORK
MAIL.
Where sre those noble steeds whose dam
never knew any but a noble sire? The stirrup
la their life; Inaction is death to them. O
rather of cavaliers! The ignorant find them
everywhere, but they are as rare as true
friends, and when they die the very saddle
sheds tears.
WHAT Is it about some horses that
makes. us get so closely attached
to them? We love them like near
relatives when tbey are alive, and when
they die we mourn for them without pre
tense. And the horse I am writing about
was one that, once you knew him, held
your love always.
He was a horse born to be great, and
he was great to-the end, for now he is
dead. He was robbed of the wild life on
the desert,
to an America:
the desert ever burned in him. And now
he is dead. .Around him were skilled
veterinarieS and grooms and other friends
he had made, and closer still was a
black boy weeping with grief beyond our
comprehension. This black boy was once
a slave in a wild tribe of warriors, the
most powerful of Anezeh Arabs. This
black, heart-broken Nubian had been the
slave of Hoshlra Bey, the supreme sheik
of the Aneich, ever since he couldTe
member, and four years ago he saw the
sheik call a council of the various tribes
of Anezeh to decide on what present
they should give to Nazim Pasha, the
Governor of Syria and Aleppo, in recog
nition of his reduction of the camel tax.
At that council it was decided to present
to the Pasha the Maneghl Sbeyel stal
lion, their greatest horse. To some of
t, taken from a pasha's stable
icrlcan box stall, but the 'fire of
the sheiks It apeared too great a gift, as
after all Nazim Pasha was a Turk. But
the ruler of the Anezeh explained thsft
the horse was not lost to them, that as
they went north each year and camped
near the Euphrates River, near the salt
lake of 'jaboul, the Wall would let the
stallion be brought to them.
This brown horse had been bred by the
Gomussa tribe of the Sebba Anezeh. His
mother was the last of the distinguished
Maneghi Sheyel mares, tracing back
more than 500 years, and his sire was a
stallion of the family of Sueyman Sebba,
of the southern desert. Seventy years
ago there had been a brown horse with
out white markings in the same distin
guished line of ancestry that had brought
them successful war horses. Thus they
took this horse as another present from
Allah that would bring them fortune in
war.
So they called him the "Pride of the
Desert." When I called on Nazim Pasha
in Aleppo on the 8tii day of August, 16,
he preaented the horse to me. This was
largely because an trade had been given
to me by Abdul Hamid. then Sultan of
Turkey (a rare distinction), and the fact
that I carried with me letters from Pres
ident Roosevelt. His gift was possibly
done in a moment where deliberation
should have been used. At any rate,
when later I took the horse back to the
tribes that had bred him they showed
the keenest disappointment. They were
sad and sullen, and those, that had ob
jected when the horse was first given to
Nazim Pasha were loud In their denunci
ation of that official, and said it was
what might be expected from a Turk.
But with me was a man, an old Bedou
in, who was their diplomat. He told them
that they had the sons of the horse, many
of them, and that the horse would be
appreciated and cared for In a land
where grass was not a luxury, and so
thev were somewhat appeased.
While we were with the Fedoan. the
largest tribe of the Anffieh, I learned
what the real worship of the Arab for
his horse is, and that writers and poets
have never overdrawn the love that ex
ists between the Arab and his steed. I
was more than thankful that I was so
constructed that I could fully realize
their sorrow at the loss of their favorite
horse. As I saw them praying around
him as he stood majestically on the des
ert the day before we left them, I at the
same time vowed that some day I would
surprise them by bringing him back and
giving him over to the Gomussa of the
Sebbaa Anezeh. They never tired ot
telling me of his greatness, his prowess
and his endurance. My interpreter, who
needed rest, said that it rested him to
translate their stories of his mother's
fame. The horse himself was dignity In
Its full meaning.
, He embodied everything that Antar
wrote of the Arab horse. You could
never attract his attention; his eyes were
always far away, scanning the desert
horizon. At Intervals during the hot day
he would whinny, and no such challenge
was ever heard from a horse. It roared
with a wild power that made you shud
der, and once In the night I must have
been asleep in the saddle when he
gave it, and I jumped nearly out of the
saddle with fear.
He was unlike any horse I ever saw
before. He was only 14.2 hands high,
and weighed only 9(30 pounds, but he was
so powerfully made that at a distance or
when you were on him he seemed a
giant. His "jibba" or full forehead was
a little different from that of most Arab
horses. One day I was measuring him
as he stood dreaming on the desert, and
some old distinguished-looking Arabs sat
near in the shade of my tent. One of
them spoke and told me that I would
find him as perfect as Allah ever made
a horse, that his top lines would be found
the shortest and his bottom lines the
longest, and that if he ever tired under
the saddle when he got to his distant
home to let tliem know some way.-
I saw that he was more than a horse
to them, as he soon wan to me. Small
children went over on their fingers his
distinguished ancestry for many hundred
years. I found when I was tired and
worn out In the hot desert that a change
to his back rested me. I found when
days were rainy and long in America
that te sit in his stall and watch his eyes
that were still dreaming was. inspiring.
I shall never forget how the last Anezeh
man that guided us on our way to the
coast said good-bye to him. The look
that the old warrior gave him will al
ways haunt me. and this horse has taught
me many lessons and, as the Arabs be
lieve, he brought me many dear friends.
He taught me that horsemen are the
same tlie world over. In America this
horse, of all the 27 that I brought, was
the one most admired by real horsemen.
In Vermont, tho home of the Morgan, he
won the Justins Morgan cup over the
Morgans, and I will never cease being
grateful for the introduction he gave me
to the best people of Vermont.
And now he is dead. The end dame
yesterday at Hingham. Mass. He was 8
years old. I had named him "Haleb,"
after the city where I first saw him. I
am deprived of tho great pleasure of
taking him home to the country and the
people that inspired his big. soft, dark
eyes to dream, and though the black
Arab boy pleads with me to notify the
far-distant Anezeh, I find even this Im
possible, and after all It would only cause
them to mourn.
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Forney Proportional representation. 1000.
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King Electoral reform; an Inquiry Into
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1869. i
Cook No Closer Than 564 Miles
Thus Declares Rear-Admiral Chester, an Astronomical Authority.
FLAT-FOOTED statement concern
j Explorer Cook, following a recent
press dispatch of Rear-Admiral
Colby M. Chester, U. a N., retired, is fur
nished in a Washington special to the
New York Sun as follows:
Scientists here today were discussing
an informal speech made last night by
Rear-Admiral Colby M. Chester, U. S.
N., retired, at the University Club, in
which he characterized Dr. Frederick
A. Cook as a faker and declared that
Dr. Cook not only did not reach the
North Pole but did not approach nearer
than a distance of about 664 miles
from the Pole.
The Importance of Admiral Ches
ter's accusation lies not only In .the
fact that he is an eminent astronomical
authority and was formerly superin
tendent of the United States Naval Ob
servatory, but In that he was one of
the special committee of three ap
pointed by the National Geographic
Society to examine the records of Com
mander Peary and report on his claim
to Polar discovery. The sub-commitrte
declared that Peary had reached the
Pole.
Professor Willis L. Moore, president
and O. P. Austin, secretary of the so
ciety, declined to discuss Admiral Ches
ter's speech. They took the ground
that It would be improper for them to
talk about It because" both Commander
Peary and Dr. Cook were members of
the society.
"My speech last night," Admiral
Chester said, "was Informal and extem
poraneous. I had been in New York
for about a week and was called up on
the long-distance telephone and asked
if I would speak on the Polar question
before the club. I agreed and arrived
In Washington from New York only a
few hours before I made the speech.
. "It is true that I referred to Dr.
Cook as a faker. I used as the basis
of my research the data used by Dr.
Cook in his copyrighted stories of his
Polar expedition printed In a New York
newspaper and carefully studied these
observations. I base my argument that
Dr. Cook did not reach the North Pole
on the disagreement between his obser
vations and the known declination of
the sun on the dates referred to in his
narrative as shown by the Nautical
Almanac.
"Where Dr. Cook states that on
April 7 he first saw the midnight sun
at 86 degrees 28 minutes, a distance of
225 miles from the Pole, in reality on
that date, according to the Nautical
Almanac, the midnight sun would have
been visible as far south as 82 degrees,
a distance of 564 miles from the Pole.
"In his narrative Dr. Cook, after as
suming that on April 7 he was as far
north as 86 degrees 28 minutes, based
his claim or reaching the Pole on an
average journey of 14 miles a day for
14 days. As a matter of fact he wpuld
have to travel 40 miles a day to cover
the distance from his real location, ac
cording to the Nautical Almanac, to .the
Pole.
"Following Dr. Cook's first state
ment concerning his journey. Professor
J. M. Stockwell, of Cleveland, showed
that If his supposed latitude was cor
rect Dr. Cook ought to have seen the
midnight sun above the horizon on
April 1. Dr. Cook's own account fixed
this date at April 7. In trying to ac
count for this discrepancy Dr. Cook
stated that he did not-say that the sun
was on the horizon at the time speci
fied and that there were many days in
which the sun was obscured by clouds.
"The inference drawn from the denial
was that on any of the preceding
seven days the midnight sun might
have been seen above the horizon If the
weather had been clear. But in his
later and fuller narrative Dr. Cook spe
cifically stated that on April 3 the
barometer remained steady and the
thermometer sank, the weather became
settled and clear. At noon now there
was a dazzling 'light, while the sun at
midnight sank but for a few moments,
leaving the frosted blue bathed in
noonday splendor.
"Of the weather between these two
dates he wrote: 'There was at no time
a perfectly clear horizon, but the
weather wag good enough to make fre
quent nautical observations.' If fre-
.quent nautical observations could be
made between April 3 and April 7 it Is
pretty certain that the sun was not al
together obscured In the middle of the
nights, and It Is certain that It was
slowly rising from total obscuration
on the early date to clear daylight on
April 7."
Not only did Admiral Chester main-
tain that on April 3 Dr. Cook was far
south of the position he gives him
self in his narrative but that bn four
subsequent days, and presumably on all
subsequent days. Dr. Cook was headed
south, away from the Pole, which, ac
cording to his own accounts, was at
least 225 miles away. Admiral Ches
ter based this deduction, he said, on
Dr. Cook's statement that on April S
the sun sank just below the horizon,
and that four days later, on April 7,
the sun showed a short distance above
the horizon.
According to Admiral Chester, If
Dr. Cook had been traveling north
ward during those four days his change
in location combined with the steadily
Increasing declination of the . sun,
would In four days have caused a far
greater change In the sun's position
relative to the horizon than that re
ported by Dr. Cook.
"If It really took, as Dr. Cook said,
four days for the sun to change Its
midnight position from just below the
horizon to just above it," Admiral Ches
ter continued, "the only explanation
possible is that Dr. Cook's movements
were taking him away from the mid
night sun: in other words, to the south.
The point I wish to make .is that the
sun during these four days was getting
above the horizon at an appreciable,
rate each day. If Dr. Cook were going
to the north this rate would have In
creased still further. But such an in
crease would require far less than four
days for the change mentioned.
"I therefore state," Admiral Chester
said in conclusion, "that Dr. Cook never
got beyond 82 degrees, just beyond
Cape Thomas Hubbard, and that he
then started back south. My conclu
sion is that Dr. Cook never got closer
than 564 miles to the North Pole."
PAJAMAS BREAK HIS FALL
Sleepwalker, Suspended in Midair,
Awakened by Policeman.
NEW YORK. Nov. 18. John Savmsky,
a cooper, 57 years old. of Williamsburg,
climbed out of a front -third-story win
dow while walking In his sleep. He wore
pajamas of stout material, and when ho
fell he was caught by a projection and
remained suspended in midair for some
time while he continued to slumber.
Patrolman Thrall, of the Greenpolnt
avenue station, saw the figure was that
of a man, but was unable to make out
what had happened. Thinking he might
be a thief, the patrolman drew his re
volver and shouted. Then Savinsky woke
up.
As he did so the cloth which held him
suspended parted and the cooper dropped
to the sidewalk. Thall tried to break
the man's fall and In doing so wrenched
his arms. Savinsky fractured both legs.
In the 40 years, IftflR to l&og. Japan's
yearly foreign trade increased from JU.OOO,
000 to (407,000,000,